(a)
(1) A director of a community mental health center shall actively encourage hospitals, community mental health centers, mental health services providers, and other mental health professionals to develop psychiatric emergency services.
(2) If a collaborative agreement can be negotiated with a hospital, community mental health center, or other healthcare facility that can provide a comprehensive psychiatric emergency service, that hospital, community mental health center, or other healthcare facility shall be given priority when designating the single point of entry.
(b) The Department of Human Services shall encourage community mental health center directors to actively work with hospitals, mental health services providers, other mental health professionals, and law enforcement agencies to develop a crisis intervention protocol and associated crisis intervention teams and psychiatric emergency services and shall facilitate the development of those collaborations.
Structure Arkansas Code
Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 47 - Treatment of Persons With Mental Illness
Subchapter 8 - Behavioral Health Crisis Intervention Protocol Act of 2017
§ 20-47-802. Legislative intent
§ 20-47-805. Establishment of crisis intervention teams
§ 20-47-806. Crisis intervention protocol — Collaborative agreements
§ 20-47-807. Crisis stabilization units — Operations
§ 20-47-808. Determination of need to initiate crisis intervention protocol
§ 20-47-809. Implementation of psychiatric emergency services
§ 20-47-810. Seventy-two-hour maximum time of detention
§ 20-47-811. Immunity from liability